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David Gauke

The Right Honourable
David Gauke
MP
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Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Assumed office
14 July 2016
Prime Minister Theresa May
Chancellor Philip Hammond
Preceded by Greg Hands
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
15 July 2014 – 14 July 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron
Chancellor George Osborne
Preceded by Nicky Morgan
Succeeded by Jane Ellison
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
In office
13 May 2010 – 15 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Chancellor George Osborne
Preceded by Sarah McCarthy-Fry
Succeeded by Priti Patel
Member of Parliament
for South West Hertfordshire
Assumed office
5 May 2005
Preceded by Richard Page
Majority 23,263 (40.6%)
Personal details
Born (1971-10-08) 8 October 1971 (age 45)
Ipswich, England, UK
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Rachel Gauke
Alma mater St Edmund Hall, Oxford
University of Law
Website Official website

David Michael Gauke PC MP (/ɡɔːk/; born 8 October 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician and solicitor. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire and current Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Gauke was educated at Northgate High School in Ipswich, Suffolk before attending St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in law in 1993, and the College of Law in Chester where he graduated in legal practice in 1995.

He was a researcher to the Conservative MP for Milton Keynes South West Barry Legg in 1993. He worked as a trainee solicitor with Richards Butler from 1995, being admitted as a solicitor in 1997. From 1999 to 2005, he was a solicitor in the financial services group at Macfarlanes, a corporate law firm.


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